Partners

• GINI
• AMCIS
• Equalsoc
• WageIndicator
• Centre for Global Health & Inequalities
• Solidarity in the 21st century
• LoWER
• Ducadam
• TLM.net

Growing INequalities’ Impacts (GINI)

www.gini-research.org
This project involves a cast of some 80 internationally leading experts in the different fields to be covered. The core partners organising the project are Abigail McKnight and Frank Cowell (London School of Economics / CASE), Brian Nolan (University College Dublin), Daniele Checchi (U. of Milan), István Toth (TÁRKI, Budapest), Ive Marx (U. Antwerp) and Herman van de Werfhorst at UvA/AMCIS. Wiemer Salverda at UvA/AIAS is the project coordinator. Terug naar top

Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies (AMCIS)

www.amcis.eu
AMCIS studies inequalities in (post-) industrialized societies and particularly focuses on the impact of stratifying variables (social origin, education, gender and ethnicity) on three outcome pillars: socioeconomic attainment (concerning outcomes in the domains of education, work, and income), political behaviour and opinions, and living arrangements. The central focus is how institutions and structures mediate the impact of social origin, education, gender and ethnicity on outcomes in each of these three ‘pillars’. Terug naar top

Equalsoc

www.equalsoc.org
AIAS is an active member and supporter of the EQUALSOC Network of Excellence which received support from the EU’s 6th Framework Programme in 2005. Staff of AIAS are involved in the many small-scale cooperative research projects. Herman van de Werfhorst is deputy coordinator of the network, Jelle Visser sits on its Scientific Council and coordinates the research on the Trust, Associations and Legitimacy (TRALEG) theme, and Wiemer Salverda chairs the network’s Governing Council. Terug naar top

WageIndicator

www.wageindicator.org
The WageIndicator is an important internet-based tool that aims to share and compare wage information. This it contributes to a transparent labour market, providing free, accurate wage data through Salary Checks on many national WageIndicator websites. Wage data are collected through web surveys. Kea Tijdens, research coordinator at AIAS, is one of the two initiators and a very active member of the WageIndicator project. She is responsible for the collection and distribution of the Indicator data. Together with the Dutch Trade Union Confederation FNV and the Monster Career Network Benelux website firm, the AIAS has founded the Dutch wageindicator (Loonwijzer) Foundation. Wiemer Salverda chairs the foundation’s Supervisory Board. The Foundation is the breeding ground for the worldwide spread which makes the WageIndicator the largest non-profit collector of internationally comparative and very recent wage data. Terug naar top

Centre Global Health & Inequalities

www.cghi.nl
The CGHI is engaged in research on the global flows of health-related personnel and technologies; socio-cultural factors that constrain access to health care; user views on and experiences with health care; (inter)generational issues in health and health care; mental and chronic health and health care; reproductive and sexual health and rights; diverging logics of care; and new forms of health-related personhood.
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Solidarity in the 21st century

www.solidariteit.info
On January 1, 2010, AIAS has started a new four year research programme on solidarity in the 21st century. This programme, which is supported by a grant of one million Euros by Stichting Instiuut Gak, will study the impact of the changing composition of the population by age and ethnicity on the solidarity between and within different groups. A research team, led by AIAS researcher Paul de Beer, will try to answer the question which motives and which conditions and circumstances foster solidarity between people that do or do not belong to the same social category. It focuses primarily on (the lack of) solidarity between natives and migrants
(or ethnic minorities) and between the young and the old casu quo between generations. Solidarity will include both informal solidarity, such as voluntary work and care, and formal solidarity, as embodied by the welfare state. The study is unique in investigating the solidarity between these different groups simultaneously and in applying various methods at the same time.

LoWER

www.uva-aias.net/lower
The European Low-wage Employment Research network and its related projects bring together some forty European researchers on low pay and low skills; minimum wages and employment; wage inequality and earnings mobility; intergenerational and intragenerational inequalities; gender, pay, part-time employment and skills; employment structure and quality; immigration and low pay; training and employment behaviour. It was established in 1996 and has profited from EU support from the 4th, 5th and 6th Framework programme. Wiemer Salverda is the network coordinator Terug naar top

Ducadam

Ducadam website
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TLM.net

TLM website
TLM.NET is the acronym of the Thematic Network Managing Social Risks through Transitional Labour Markets,
The core idea of the TLM.NET project was to serve as a nexus of expertise and research following the Transitional Labour Market (TLM) framework in order to provide insights into and innovative solutions to current problems facing EU labour markets. Major research on basic labour market transitions and transitions into other spheres of social life, like learning, caring, unemployment and retirement has been carried out and summarised national and comparative research with respect to all relevant labour market transitions in the life course of workers.
It was financed by the 5th framework programme of DG Research of the European Commission and jointly coordinated by the WZB (Wissenschafszentrum für Sozialforschung Berlin) and SISWO/ Social Policy Research, University of Amsterdam. The project ran from December 2002 to March 2006, and comprised a network of twenty three research institutes in Europe and Canada. Terug naar top